NOTES ON GRIEF
A personal and powerful essay on loss from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun.
'Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language and the grasping for language'
On 10 June 2020, the scholar James Nwoye Adichie died suddenly in Nigeria.
In this tender and powerful essay, expanded from the original New Yorker text, his daughter, a self-confessed daddy's girl, remembers her beloved father. Notes on Grief is at once a tribute to a long life of grace and wisdom, the story of a daughter's fierce love for a parent, and a revealing examination of the layers of loss and the nature of grief.
CHIMANANDA NGOZI ADICHIE
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Purple Hibiscus; Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction; Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year; the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck; and the essays We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.
Edad recomendada: Adultos.
ADICHIE CHIMAMANDA NGOZI
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie es una escritora y feminista nigeriana nacida el 15 de septiembre de 1977 en Enugu, Nigeria. Creció en una familia de etnia igbo, hija de James Nwoye Adichie, profesor de estadística, y Grace Ifeoma, registradora universitaria. Estudió medicina y farmacia en la Universidad de Nigeria antes de trasladarse a Estados Unidos, donde cursó Comunicaciones y Ciencias Políticas en la Universidad de Drexel y luego en Eastern Connecticut State University. Obtuvo una maestría en escritura creativa en Johns Hopkins y otra en estudios africanos en Yale. Su obra incluye novelas como "Purple Hibiscus", "Half of a Yellow Sun", "Americanah" y ensayos como "We Should All Be Feminists" y "Dear Ijeawele". Ha sido reconocida por su activismo feminista, sus conferencias TED y su capacidad para retratar la experiencia africana y la diáspora con profundidad y sensibilidad.
